“Now you remember, Billy,” Selene snarled, “if you give me any trouble, I'll shoot you. And I've already shot you once, so you know I mean it. Be still.”
“Why?” he moaned. “Why didn't you just kill me?”
“Because I'm a good person,” she replied. “Oh, I wanted to kill you, especially after those photographs, but I'm going to do something even worse. I'm going to forgive you. It may not be today, but someday soon, I will tell myself, “That Billy Flannery is not going to make me angry another moment. You see, my life is too valuable to waste it on hatred and murder. Yours is too. I'm giving you a second chance. Don't mistake me, you'll have to pay a heavy price for what you've done, just like your brother did, but use the opportunity to learn from your bad choices and make better ones in the
